Publications - deCervo

deCervo’s Publications

These peer-reviewed and high-quality publications highlight the science that goes into deCervo’s products. As a result, you will find links below to articles deCervo’s founders have authored for leading neuroscience and engineering research journals.

Additionally, below you will find the neuroscientific and statistical foundations to why deCervo’s products work across uHIT Baseball, uHIT Softball, uCALL and e-TRAIN. For instance, towards the bottom of the page, you will find preview images with embedded links of the earliest publications going back to 2012. Conversely, you will find the latest research results towards the top of the page.

To begin, early publications demonstrate the basic neuroscience underlying deCervo’s products. For instance, 2012-2016 publications focus on neuroimaging and algorithmic approaches to decoding data collected during perceptual decision making tasks. Later papers focus on application of these scientific results to industry application. For instance, 2024 and 2018 publications focus on cognitive training and neuroimaging of professionals in baseball and music, respectively.

Consequently, this page provides a guide from basic science research to industry application that has been done during deCervo’s 10+ years.

“The results demonstrated significant improvements in OPS for teams that participated in the cognitive training intervention.”

September 5, 2024

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“We find evidence that these grades of expertise are mediated by different sensory-motor interactions emblematic of the sound production mode.”

July 16, 2018

“Structural connectivity analysis provided additional insights into differences in functional networks between experts and controls.”

July 22, 2016

“An analysis of structural connectivity reveals that the players have significantly more connections between cerebellar and left frontal/ motor regions.”

May 22, 2016

“We show that pre-stimulus brain state can be used to discriminate behaviorally correct and incorrect trials”

May 1, 2015

“We found strong evidence for differences in inhibitory processes between the two groups, specifically differential activity in supplementary motor areas (SMA), indicative of enhanced inhibitory control in the expert (baseball player) group.”

December 15, 2015

“We found that [expert marksmen] perceive more categorical overlap between incoming and non-incoming gunfire.”

February 6, 2015

“These results suggest that sensory anomalies detected by experts may in fact be partially a result of an embodied cognition.”

July 12, 2013

“Important decisions in the heat of battle occur rapidly and a key aptitude of a good combat soldier is the ability to determine whether he is under fire.”